About me 

Tyla explores different perspectives on the natural world.  Her photographs establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. The works focus on questions that determine our relationship with nature. By exploring the concept of landscape, she creates moments of changing the subject’s original form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted, and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.
Education 
2012 - 2016 BA Studio Art concentration in Photography and minor in Arts Administration, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 
​​​2017 - 2018 Masters of Letters in Fine Art Practice (Photography and the Moving Image), Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Exhibitions
2014:
  • Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
2015:
  • Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Otterbein University Annual Juried Student Show: Juried by Brandon Briggs, The Miller Gallery, Westerville Ohio​
2016:
  • Otterbein University Annual Juried Student Show: Juried by Larry W. Collins, The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Valediction: A Senior Exhibition, The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio 
  • Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Cartographies: Reconstructing Human Displacement, Fisher Gallery, Westerville, Ohio (Collaboration with Juan Si Gonzalez) 
2017:
  • ​Fragmented Memory (Residency Exhibition with Jennifer Hall Overholser), The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Fear of White Walls: WIP by M.Litt Photography and Moving Image, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland
2018:
  • Windows Vista, Glasgow Why Arts Festival, 10 Dalhousie Street, Glasgow, Scotland 

*Solo Show
Awards/Accomplishments  
2016:
  • Ohio Art League (OAL) 2016 Membership Award, Lake Erie #4
  • Aegis Cover Art Competition, Lake Erie #2
Residencies/Internships
2015
  • Photography Intern for the City of Westerville, Ohio
2016-2017
  • Otterbein Artist in Residence, Westerville, Ohio 
Collections
  • Otterbein University Permanent Art Collection, Westerville, Ohio, Lake Erie #2